Accessories - Imaging

New to W98. would like to know if text documents scanned
into the Imaging App. in W98 Accessories can somehow be
imported into Word or Wordpad and therefore be worked
on...that is, additional text added, deleted or revised
and then saved. I have seen all the annotation and
highlite capabilities but not the ability to work with the
text itself.
Thanks in advance.
Lil

Imaging produces a graphic image, not editable text.
You want an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program to extract the
text from the image.
I can't advise on the best currently as I haven't installed one for
years and I rarely use it (Omnipage Pro 8.0)

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.win98.apps, "Lil"
wrote:

New to W98. would like to know if text documents scanned
into the Imaging App. in W98 Accessories can somehow be
imported into Word or Wordpad and therefore be worked
on...that is, additional text added, deleted or revised
and then saved. I have seen all the annotation and
highlite capabilities but not the ability to work with the
text itself.
Thanks in advance.
Lil

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:14:33 -0700, "Lil"
wrote:

New to W98. would like to know if text documents scanned
into the Imaging App. in W98 Accessories can somehow be
imported into Word or Wordpad and therefore be worked
on...that is, additional text added, deleted or revised
and then saved. I have seen all the annotation and
highlite capabilities but not the ability to work with the
text itself.
Thanks in advance.
Lil

You can do some quasi-text placement via Paintbrush, but it
is limited, if you make a mistake you can do an UNDO or
CTRL+Z, better to get a graphics editor that allows
layering.

Wordpad can allow the placement of objects (pictures, music,
whatever ) with text describing such, but not on the
graphic.

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Look through the software that was supplied with your scanner. You are
looking for OCR software - it may have been installed as part of the scanner
software package, or it may have been an optional component that you
skipped.

Check the scanning utility to see if there is an option to "Scan to OCR" or
similar. The output will be text which you can copy and paste into WORD or
WordPad, or it may be a text file which you can open or insert into an
existing document.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Lil" wrote in message
...
New to W98. would like to know if text documents scanned
into the Imaging App. in W98 Accessories can somehow be
imported into Word or Wordpad and therefore be worked
on...that is, additional text added, deleted or revised
and then saved. I have seen all the annotation and
highlite capabilities but not the ability to work with the
text itself.
Thanks in advance.
Lil